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Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 Robert Menzies : A Life : Volume 2, 1944-1978
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A Man in His Season Robert Manne , 2000 single work column
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 19 May 2000;

'Robert Menzies, the son of a sturdy country shopkeeper of Scottish descent, a scholarship boy, a brilliant young barrister, a hand-picked politician of a Melbourne conservative coterie, became the Prime Minister of Australia in 1939. Two years later, he was thrown out of office in what his biographer calls “the most humiliating collapse” in his nation’s political history. After eight years in the wilderness, Menzies led the Liberal Party he had revitalized to the most consequential electoral victory in the history of Australia. He was Prime Minister for the next sixteen years. The Liberal-Country Party…'  (Introduction)

Ming Treasures Jenny Hocking , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , November vol. 4 no. 10 1999; (p. 21)

— Review of Robert Menzies : A Life : Volume 2, 1944-1978 A. W. Martin , 1999 single work biography
Ming Treasures Jenny Hocking , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , November vol. 4 no. 10 1999; (p. 21)

— Review of Robert Menzies : A Life : Volume 2, 1944-1978 A. W. Martin , 1999 single work biography
A Man in His Season Robert Manne , 2000 single work column
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 19 May 2000;

'Robert Menzies, the son of a sturdy country shopkeeper of Scottish descent, a scholarship boy, a brilliant young barrister, a hand-picked politician of a Melbourne conservative coterie, became the Prime Minister of Australia in 1939. Two years later, he was thrown out of office in what his biographer calls “the most humiliating collapse” in his nation’s political history. After eight years in the wilderness, Menzies led the Liberal Party he had revitalized to the most consequential electoral victory in the history of Australia. He was Prime Minister for the next sixteen years. The Liberal-Country Party…'  (Introduction)

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